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Govt pursues food security for public welfare
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ANTARA News - Latest Indonesia News
Govt pursues food security for public welfareSurabaya, East Java (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government pursues its best efforts to secure rice and food stock to ensure that people's needs are met, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman stressed.
"I say, no more complaints about rice and food stock.
It was five thousand hectares in the previous year, and it has significantly expanded to 15 thousand hectares to date, he remarked.
Indonesia is the largest supplier of cooking oil in the world, fulfilling 60 percent of global needs, yet one time, the product was scarce in Indonesia.
Hence, the government and Police, National Defense Force, and prosecutors will take firm action against all food mafia," he said.However, currently the national food stock situation is at its peak ever, he said, and global data shows that the increase in national food production is ranked the second in the world.
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